Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone's Country Music, U.S.A. has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music's folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This second revised edition includes an extensive new chapter that continues the story from 1985 to 2000, along with an annotated listing of books and recordings which came out during that time.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Immersed in country music since his birth, BILL C. MALONE has been both a scholar and a performer of the music for several decades. Now retired from Tulane University, he lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he hosts a weekly radio show, "Back to the Country."

Review:

"Described as “the Bible for country music history and scholarship” on its original publication, it is quite simply the cornerstone--and a highly readable one at that--of any shelf devoted to the country’s Southern/Western rural class music and should be in any library of America’s music heritage." (Texas Books in Review)